Oreophryne parkeri Loveridge, 1955
Oreophryne parkeri Loveridge, 1955, Breviora, 50: 3. Holotype: MCZ 12964, by original designation. Type locality: "Matapan [= Matapau], [West Sepik Province,] Australian New Guinea [Papua New Guinea]".
English Names
Parker's Cross Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 91).
Distribution
Known only from three localities: the type locality, a coastal village lying about midway between Aitape and Wewak, in West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea; a locality in the Bewani Mountains, also in West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, and from Sentani, Papua, Indonesia
Comment
See account by Zweifel, Menzies, and Price, 2003, Am. Mus. Novit., 3415: 24-27. Kraus and Allison, 2006, Herpetol. Rev., 37: 364-368, provided the Bewani Mountains record.
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